Extensible clothes-line-supporting post



(No Model.)

J. KREM.

EXTENSIBLE CLOTHES LINE SUPPORTING POST No. 448,582.

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- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN KREM, OF GRAND RAPIDS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO HENRY RAUH, OF IVALKER, MICHIGAN.

EXTENSIMBLE CLOTHES-LlNE-SUPPORTING POST.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 448,582, dated March 17, 1891.

Application filed December 21, 1889. Serial No. 384,527. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN KREM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Extensible Clothes-Line- Supporting Posts; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable IO others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an extensible clothes-linessupporting post; and the object of my invention is to produce a cheap, effective extensible post adapted to be extended longitudinally for the purpose of raising the clothes-line to any desired height; and it consists in the construction, combination, and arrangement of the parts hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, whereina Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device set up ready for use. Fig. 2 is an enlarged View of a portion of my device, showing more clearly the construction of the upper strap, which serves both as a guide and support for the adjustable post.

A designates an ordinary square post,which may be permanently set in the ground, and forms the stationary part of my device, and 13 is a movable post, which is attached to post A by U-shaped straps E and O, and is formed on its outer face with notches G for the purpose hereinafter specified. For convenience in raising and lowering said movable post B it is provided with a handle F.

The lower strap E is rigidly secured at its open end to the sliding post 13, encircles said 0 post A, and moves with said sliding post, and the strap 0 is pivoted at its open end by the pivot-pin J to the top of the stationary post A, passes around said sliding post, and at its closed end 0 is formed with an inwardlyturned flange D, having a blunt and preferably rounded extremity, which flange engages the notches G in the sliding post and holds said post in any desired position as regards its height. During the adjustment of the sliding post the upper end of the strap 0 and the inner edge of the flange D thereof are in close contact with the outer surface of said sliding post, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, thereby keeping said sliding post in close contact with said stationary post, and at the same time it does not interfere with the rapid adjustment of the sliding post, but rather aids such adjustment by preventing Wabbling, and when such sliding post has been raised or lowered to the desired position it is held rigidly in such position by turning said strap on its pivots and causing the flange thereof to engage the desired notch. It will therefore be readily understood that said strap forms a most perfect combined guide and support for the adjustable post, and at the same time it is extremely simple in its construction.

In the practical use of my invention I ordinarily employ two end supports constructed as above described and having the ends of the clothes-line secured to the sliding posts thereof, and an intermediate support for taking up the slack in the line. The two end supports are identical in construction, and the intermediate support is different therefrom only in that the stationary part thereof, instead of being set in the ground permanently, simply rests thereon, so that it can be moved from place'to place, and the upper end of its sliding post is formed with a notch I for the passage of the clothes-line instead of having said clothes-line secured to it. Said intermediate support may also be of less size than the end supports. In all other respects its construction is the same as the end posts.

I am aware of United States Patents No. 118,698, dated September 5, 1871, to Denton and Denton, and No. 350,173, dated October 5, 1886, to G. G. Udell, and I make no claim to the constructions or devices in said patent-s specified.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is 5 The herein-described extension clothes-1i nesupporting post, consisting of a"stationary post and a post vertically adj ustable thereon, said adjustable post having notches on its outer face, a guide-strap E, inclosing the sta- IOO to of the flange will be in close contact with the forward face of said adjustable post, substantiall y as described, and for the purposes specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

JOHN KREM.

lVitnesses:

DENNIS L. ROGERS, LUTHER V. MoULToN. 

